The shocking stories about people’s experience of Britain who are fleeing poverty and persecution, and the political hysteria to ‘gain control’ of the situation, have not been created by too many refugees coming here. Rather, they are the result of Tory government asylum system failings.
The government might be facing ‘difficult decisions’, but they’re not nearly as intimidating as those that many households are experiencing daily – like being forced to choose between heating and eating.
From the BBC to the NHS, the right has been gnawing away at well-liked British institutions, waging ‘politicised’ campaigns designed to influence direction. And the National Trust, with millions of members, is firmly in their sights.
Sunak might be seen to have more political nous than his two disgraced predecessors, but he’s an ideologically right-wing Tory from the right of the party. The fact that he’s presented as a pragmatic centrist shows how far to the right the party has swung.
In many ways, the Tories’ downfall is not startling at all. Not just because Truss and her predecessor were incompetents, but because the party’s implosion has been brewing for decades, and their problems have much deeper causes.
Labour has demanded to know what access Julio Herrera Velutini was given to the prime minister
A new study from the Lancet shows that deaths from treatable causes have risen in line with increased privatisation spending in the NHS.
Last week’s RWW newsletter will be the last one for the moment, but at least the Tories are getting a kicking.
The Tories are planning on awarding peerages to a number of loyal allies of Boris Johnson.
The Bill also sets up future battles with the European Court of Human Rights.
